While the Senate hasn’t revealed the parameters of the trial, Trump will be allowed to make his case to stay in office with his own legal team and White House counsel.<\/p>\n
“The House cannot choose our impeachment managers until we know what sort of trial the Senate will conduct,” Pelosi tweeted yesterday. Sen. Graham responded, “In our system, you can’t be the Speaker of the House and the Senate Majority Leader at the same time. The Senate will decide how we dispose of this sham created by the House.”<\/p>\n
When the trial begins, Republicans will hold 53 seats in the Senate, Democrats 45, and Independents two. No Republican voted in favor of impeachment in the House, and that’s a likely outcome in the Senate.<\/p>\n
Sixty-seven senators need to vote to convict Trump to oust him from the Oval Office. That’s why the odds remain distant regarding the slim chance of conviction. Presidents Andrew Johnson and Clinton \u2013 the only other two US presidents to be impeached \u2013 were both acquitted in the Senate (Johnson by just one vote, Clinton by 22 votes).<\/p>\n
\nWill the Senate convict Donald Trump on impeachment in his first term?” has “Yes” shares at just nine cents.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
The president tweeted last night, “STOCK MARKET CLOSES AT ALL-TIME HIGH! What a great time for the Radical Left, Do Nothing Democrats to Impeach your favorite President, especially since he has not done anything wrong!”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Political bettors believe impeachment managers, the appointed House of Representatives members who will make the lower chamber’s impeachment case against President Donald Trump during the Senate trial, won’t be named for a couple of weeks. The PredictIt market asking, “When will the House pass a resolution appointing impeachment managers?” has January 6-12 as the front-runner, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":122915,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19853,61],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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